Antiracist healthcare workers expose liberal misleaders

LOS ANGELES, June 13—Over 300 healthcare workers marched on two LA County jails, and then on to the ICE detention center. The LA County jails are the largest jail system in the country, which is the largest jailer on the planet! As we marched with a pickup truck and sound system Progressive Labor Party chants led all along the way. Chants such as, “Racism means… Alex Flores means… Our healthcare means… WE GOT TO FIGHT BACK” rang out through downtown Los Angeles! We were also joined by three families who had their loved ones murdered by LA Sheriff’s including the family of Alex Flores, killed by the LAPD in November 2019.

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Letters of July 22

Tanzania: capitalism’s brutal disregard for workers lives
On June 1 schools in Tanzania reopened after a coronavirus shutdown for almost three months. From all over the country, students were returning to their boarding schools, where they live and study in very close quarters.  With no testing, masks, or plan for social distancing, teachers were very concerned for their own and their students’ safety and they took action to protect themselves from the pandemic.

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Antiracist healthcare workers expose liberal misleaders

LOS ANGELES, June 13—Over 300 healthcare workers marched on two LA County jails, and then on to the ICE detention center. The LA County jails are the largest jail system in the country, which is the largest jailer on the planet! As we marched with a pickup truck and sound system Progressive Labor Party chants led all along the way. Chants such as, “Racism means… Alex Flores means… Our healthcare means… WE GOT TO FIGHT BACK” rang out through downtown Los Angeles! We were also joined by three families who had their loved ones murdered by LA Sheriff’s including the family of Alex Flores, killed by the LAPD in November 2019.

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Communist politics lead anti-kkkops protests

NEW YORK CITY—“Same enemy! Same fight! Workers of the world unite!” This chant filled the streets regularly in June in New York City, as Progressive Labor Party members and friends joined countless other workers and youth who took to the streets. The masses of antiracists have a path to choose: the road towards communist revolution or the road to reforming racist capitalism. For us, the answer is clear: abolish exploitation and build a world by the working class, for the working class.

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Tulsa Massacre: Workers unite & fight, rulers loot & terrorize

Tulsa, Oklahoma is the story of looting and dispossession. It is one of the countless massacres in the history of the United States, often skipped over in history class. It left behind untold suffering as thousands of Black residents were left homeless after three  days of racist terror and violence. As U.S. bosses celebrated  Independence Day, Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” rang even more true this year—“for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

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From Atlanta to Oaxaca, identity politics has got to go!

From Atlanta, Georgia to Oaxaca, Mexico, the capitalist bosses are using identity politics and sell-out misleaders to try to pacify the angry masses. But as millions have rebelled around the world, more and more demonstrators are seeing that the problem isn’t just a few “bad” cops. Racist violence is an integral part of the capitalists’ racist profit system, a state apparatus that protects the bosses’ profits by exploiting, dividing, and terrorizing the international working class.
Amid a global pandemic and economic depression, as the rulers’ callous greed and glaring weaknesses are exposed, many protesters are embracing communist ideas. They’re coming to see that all politicians and cops are our class enemies, regardless of their skin color. And that only a mass, multiracial organization, led by communist politics and the most militant Black and Latin workers, can smash the capitalist system, the source of all racism and inequality. Our inspirational unity in this fightback is the bosses’ worst nightmare.

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Communism means no police

The mass antiracist rebellion sparked by the murder of George Floyd has brought to the light what Black and Latin workers have always known, the role of the police is to terrorize the working class, particularly Black workers. The police cannot be reformed because in killing Black workers they are doing their job to maintain capitalism.
“Defund the Police” has become a mass slogan of the rebellion. Millions of young people around the world are demanding a world with no cops. The capitalists will never do this. Capitalism is based on the bosses exploiting the working class for profit. The bosses use both racism and the police to maintain this system. Racism is used to justify low wages and keep the working class divided. The police enforce racism and the laws that protect exploitation. People are not equal before the eyes of the law because the law is there to maintain inequality. The bosses steal billions every day, it’s called business. The laws are there to protect them. Capitalism and equality are incompatible.

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Smash racism and liberal fascists

NEWARK, NJ, June 12—“Asian, Latin, Black, and white—workers of the world unite!” For the first time in decades, a multiracial group of workers chanted Progressive Labor Party’s (PLP)  line down Clinton Avenue in Newark, a predominantly Black, working-class neighborhood with strong ties to the Mayor. Along the march, workers and students were attacked and blocked by Black city officials that work for Big Fascist Mayor Ras Baraka while marching down the hill to protest outside the 5th Pigs Precinct. Big Fascists are members of the liberal, imperialist  ruling class, who pretend to be on the side of workers.
Nevertheless, this march affirmed PLP’s line that liberal rulers are the main danger to the working class. It is our responsibility as communists to tear down the veil and challenge both nationalism and identity politics while pushing for a multiracial, internationalist, communist, working-class leadership under PLP.

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Letter: From Alex Flores to George Floyd, hell yeah! We’ll unite and fight!

For the last seven months, we have been involved in the fight for justice for Alex Flores, killed by LAPD on November 19, 2019. For six weeks, we protested every night in front of the “Shootin’ Newton” police station. After Alex was buried, we moved to Friday nights and have not missed a Friday yet.
As we continued to get ignored by the police, the DA, the politicians, and pretty much everyone who makes decisions about Alex’s case, anger grew. We surrounded police cars leaving the station. We took over street intersections. The community began to know us through our regular presence and canvassing. More recently, many joined us. When the politicians wanted everyone to stay home, we fought to make protesting this system “essential business”.

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Book Review: What communism in China achieved in public health

As of this writing, May 18, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has infected over 4 million people worldwide and killed over 300,00 people. The USA, supposedly the most advanced and wealthiest capitalist country, is leading the world in the wrong way as usual. It has the most deaths—91,000 plus, and the most cases, 1.5 million. It also has, ironically, the costliest health care system in the world.

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